After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us -- one third of the island's population. Our tribe could only increase as the Mykines tribe dwindled away, a few falling down steps, most simply emigrating, until there would be, sad to say, only our peripatetic selves. We were the future of all places condemned by remoteness to a lingering, photogenic death.
Lawrence MillmanA good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
Lao TzuThe farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.
Anderson CooperI am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.
Norman LewisTags: travel
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
Walter BenjaminTags: books travel book-collecting
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain...I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this trip. It was as if the act of touching these places, walking these roads,and asking these questions had added another column to my being. And the only possible explanation I could find for that feeling was that a spirit existed in many of the places I visited, and a spirit existed in me and the two had somehow met in the course of my travels. It's as if the godliness of the land and the godliness of my being had fused.
Bruce FeilerTags: inspirational history travel
In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God...If that spirit is life, then I found life...If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it's all three...all I had to do to discover that spirit and the resulting feeling of humility and appreciation was not to look or listen or taste or feel. All I had to do was remember, for what I was looking for I somehow already knew.
Bruce FeilerTags: inspirational history travel
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
Israel ShenkerIn books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
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